CRAZY TIMES

MY 160 POUND WEIGHT LOSS

My study into health and nutrition began 10 years ago. At that time I had just lost my wife to a health related illness. I was obese and in bad health myself. In the following  2 years I lost 160 pounds and lots of health problems.

I started a blog to talk about what I had learned back in June of 2011. I have posted most of my old blog posts here on this blog. Go back several pages to read the first, and work yourself up to the newer posts. CLICK HERE TO GO BACK

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CRAZY TIMES

What crazy times we live in. Shortages and rumors of shortages everywhere. 

 I haven't post here for sometime. With Biden's "Dark Winter" upon us I thought I should try and help those trying to eat healthy in a time of shortages.

Most food shortages don't bother me. I JERF, Just Eat Real Food. 95% of the junk they call food in the supermarkets should be avoided anyway. 

 You should be buying as much food directly from your local farmer as you can. The farmers need us, and we need the farmers, now more than ever. 

There is a website that lists local farmers that sell to the public all across the country it's EatWild.com CLICK HERE  

 GROWING YOUR OWN GREENS

I've posted in the past about seed sprouting as a way to have fresh greens in your home year round. Scroll on down the blog to find the post on sprouting.

HYDROPONICS

Another way to have fresh vegtibles is home hydroponics. There is a new method of hydropoonics that I have just learned about. It's called the Kratky Method. Easy as pie. No more air hoses and pumps

YOU HAVE TO MOVE

 

MY 160 POUND WEIGHT LOSS

My study into health and nutrition began 10 years ago. At that time I had just lost my wife to a health related illness. I was obese and in bad health myself. In the following  2 years I lost 160 pounds and lots of health problems.

I started a blog to talk about what I had learned back in June of 2011. I have posted most of my old blog posts here on this blog. Go back several pages to read the first, and work yourself up to the newer posts. CLICK HERE TO GO BACK

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YOU HAVE TO MOVE

MY BELLICON REBOUNDER

I was just listening to Dr. Jane Ruby talk about the EXPLODING rate of cancer in those who have taken the covid "vaccine". especially lymphoma. 

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

Got me thinking about the lymphatic system. It's part of the immune system that filters the blood. It doesn't have a pump like our circulatory system does. It is dependent on movement. And we just don't move enough.

That's where a rebounder comes in. I first found out about rebounding 10 years ago when I began a study into health and nutrition that led me to lose 160 pounds and lots of health problems. SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN ON THIS BLOG TO SEE MY FIRST POST FROM 2011

I found the study from NASA that shows Rebound Exercise Is The Most Efficient Form Of Exercise Yet Devised By Man. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

I sold all my exercise equipment and bought a Bellicon Rebounder. The best on the market. I still have it 10 years later, and still use it. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

When I purchased it I was about 350 pounds so I bought the big heavy duty one. I got the one with fold up legs so I could take it with me when I traveled. It slides under the bed when you're not using it.

You COULD use a large trampoline. But a rebounder fits in your room.

Health Benefits of Rebounding

Click here to learn more about rebounding

REBOUNDING.

It's as fun as jumping on the bed when you were a kid, but without getting yelled at.

More on the benefits of rebounding.

START MOVING

GROW YOUR OWN

My 160 Pound Weight Loss

My study into health and nutrition began 10 years ago. At that time I had just lost my wife to a health related illness. I was obese and in bad health myself. In the following  2 years I lost 160 pounds and lots of health problems.

I started a blog to talk about what I had learned back in June of 2011. I have posted most of my old blog posts here on this blog. Go back several pages to read the first, and work yourself up to the newer posts. 

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GROW YOUR OWN

We’ve all experienced shortages over the past couple years. Even now we see empty shelves and sold out items every time we go shopping. 

It’s important that we do all we can to prepare for coming food shortages. Now is the time to stock up as much as we can. I’ve posted an article about sprouting. How you can grow fresh greens in your home year round with no garden and no soil. Go back and check out the article. 

Another way you can grow fresh vegetables in your home even during the winter, with no soil is hydroponics.

In the past growing vegetables using hydroponics has been complicated and expensive. Requiring tanks, pumps, hoses and lots of time. Not anymore.  

A new method, at least new to me  allows you to greatly simplify and makes it almost effortless to have fresh vegetables growing in your home. Year round.

It’s called the “Kratky Method Hydroponics”.  You don’t need pumps and hoses. Just a plastic tote, or glass or plastic containers, grow lights, and plant food. 

I planted a tote and several large canning jars with kale, and lettuce. Plant it and do nothing else till harvest time. I was able to get several harvests from the same planting. They keep growing back till the water is used up. 

I’m planning on expanding from kale and lettuce, adding peppers, onions, cucumbers, and more.

I'll include links to the items you will need for your Kratky Hydroponic garden. It's best to try and find the items locally. But If you can't, they can be purchased on Amazon. 

My first attempt at Kratky Method Hydroponics,
IT WORKED GREAT!

Here is a short video on the Kratky Method: https://youtu.be/KWUirDxgavc

Learn more about Kratky here: https://www.growkratky.com

*You will need a tank or containers to plant your seeds in. I shop at Goodwill stores all the time so I buy storage totes. 

Rubbermaid makes the best totes. You can get them at Goodwill for around $2.  The one you see here is a Rubbermaid tote. 

You will need to cut holes in the top. 

You can also use large canning jars, pickle buckets or large plastic food containers.

*You will need net pots to insert into the holes cut in the top. The net pots hold the plants. Net pots come in several sizes. I use 2 inch and 3 inch pots. 

*You will need a planting medium for the net pots. I have used rock wool but I prefer coconut husks.

*You will need plant nutrients.

Vegtable seeds. 

*And a grow light. You can use Fluorescent tubes, but LEDs are better and cheaper to run. 

Click on the pictures for Amazon links...

NET POSTS

COCONUT HUSK

PLANT NUTRIENTS

LED GROW LIGHT

We all need food. Now is the time to prepare. Stock up on seeds and supplies now while you can.

And plant extra for others.

EARTHING / GROUNDING

My 160 Pound Weight Loss

My study into health and nutrition began 10 years ago. At that time I had just lost my wife to a health related illness. I was obese and in bad health myself. In the following  2 years I lost 160 pounds and lots of health problems.

I started a blog to talk about what I had learned back in July of 2011. I have posted most of my old blog posts here on this blog. Go back several pages to read the first, and work yourself up to the newer posts. 

One of the things I learned back then was GROUNDING, or EARTHING.  The importance of being grounded to the earth.  Up until the early 1960 we were all grounded to the earth. We had wood floors or natural fiber carpets. We wore leather sole shoes, and went barefoot a lot. When I was a boy the shoes came off as soon as the weather was warm enough. 

When I found out about grounding, I purchased a grounding sheet for my bed and my life changed. I lost a lot of the health problems especially my heart problem. My skin on my lower legs was dark, looked like I was wearing tan socks. When I began grounding the color returned to normal. I began sleeping better too.

There is lots of information online about grounding now. It all started with one man, Clinton Ober. He wrote a book about it called: “Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever!” Read the book. It’s still available on Amazon and eBay. 

Someone made a documentary about it called “The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding”. Here is a link to it on Youtube…  https://www.earthingmovie.com

I recommend you buy a grounding mat, or grounding sheet and try it for yourself. 

It’s important to be grounded, spiritually and physically. Read and study your Bible daily. Pray for understanding and SPIRITUAL grounding. Walk barefoot and use a grounding mat for physical grounding.

To read my original blog posts from 2011, scroll down several pages on this blog.

REBOUNDING,

https://wellnessmama.com/13915/rebounding-benefits/

DON'T SETTLE

My 160 pound weight loss

I saw a post online the other day. It was telling ladies that they were beautiful just the way they are.
It was accompanied by a picture of a very overweight young lady.
Being a former fat person myself I had to comment. I said:

I don't know. I think I look better, and certainly FEEL better now that I've lost all the weight. Being a former FAT person. I can say that it's not fun, not pleasant being FAT and we should NOT settle for it. If I can do it, anyone can. Don't kid yourself, FAT people don't want to be fat no matter what they say...

Sorry to be so blunt but I believe we should not settle for being overweight. We have all the information we need now to live a healthy life. We are no longer limited to the lies that we were fed by the USDA and the medical profession for decades.  We have all the knowledge we need at our finger tips.

Following the USDA Food Pyramid and My Plate kills around 800 people a day in this country.
Go to any supermarket and see what people are putting in their shopping carts. JUNK, POISON.
They check out the junk food, then push their carts over to the pharmacy to pick up prescription drugs  to treat the side effects, illness and disease caused by the junk they just purchased as food.

Have you ever noticed that you never see any OLD fat people.

I found this 13 part video series years ago when I started my research into heath and nutrition.
Watch it. You'll learn a lot...
Weston A. Price Foundation dietary guidelines press conference

Don't settle for being overweight. You will feel better and live longer if you don't

Learn why I started a study into health and nutrition almost 10 years ago. How that information led to a 160 pound weight loss and changed my life. Scroll down to my first blog from July 2011.

MY WINTER INDOOR GARDEN

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Learn why I started a study into health and nutrition almost 10 years ago. How that information led to a 160 pound weight loss and changed my life. Scroll down to my first blog from July 2011.

Sprouts, Nature's SUPER FOOD

It's winter now in central Kentucky. COLD. 

It's the time of year we start planning the spring gardens. Poring over the seed catalogs waiting for the first warm days we can began working the soil. Well you can have fresh greens year round by sprouting. I've been sprouting for years. It's simple to do, you'll save money and sprouts are very healthy.

I sprout several different plants. My favorites are Alfalfa and Radish. Here is some of my indoor garden.

MY INDOOR GARDEN

Sprouts are becoming increasingly known for their nutrition powerhouse. With highly concentrated nutritional benefits compared to eating mature vegetables, sprouts can be easily added to your table, by adding them to salads, soups, sandwiches, stir-fries, sautéed vegetables, and smoothies. The most common sprouts include broccoli, peas, watercress, mung bean, radish, and alfalfa.

Sprouts are low in calories and rich in fibre, enzymes, protein, and other micro-nutrients. They can easily be grown at home without requiring advanced gardening skills. There are tremendous health benefits from including sprouts in your diet:

• Sprouts are easy and cheap to grow and, as locally grown vegetables, offer additional environmental benefits by avoiding pesticides, food additives and pollution from transportation.
• They offer a powerful source of vitamins, minerals antioxidants, enzymes that fight free radicals as sprouting can increase their potency by 20 times or more.
• Because they are oxygen dense they protect the body against bacteria, virus and abnormal cell growth.
• Soaking and sprouting substantially increases the fibre content in sprouts which facilitates weight loss as the fibre binds to fat and toxins to remove them from the body.
• Vitamin, such as A, B, C and E, and essential fatty acid nutrients increase in sprouting and minerals bind to protein, making them more easily absorbed.
• Sprouts alkalize the body and protect it from disease including cancer.
• Sprouted seeds, grains, legumes or nuts help support cell regeneration.
• Due to their richness in dietary fibre and low calorie content, sprouts offer a substantial help in your weight loss goals.

Here is some information on the health benefits of Sprouting:

16 Benefits Of Sprouting And The Right Way To Do It

Benefits Of Eating Sprouts Daily

How to Grow Sprouts Indoors in a Mason Jar, No Soil Required 

You can purchase sprouting seeds and supplies on Amazon. CLICK HERE 

CHILI.
What better food for a cold winters day. I love chili. I think I make great chili and make it once a week. Enough to last a few days. 
I found a way to make my Kentucky chili even better. 
I add radish sprouts. Spicy radish sprouts are a great addition.
Here is a picture of the chili I enjoyed tonight.

Chili with Radish Sprouts

Don't wait till spring. Start your "Indoor Garden" now.

Learn why I started a study into health and nutrition almost 10 years ago. How that information led to a 160 pound weight loss and changed my life. Scroll down to my first blog from July 2011.

20 MORE TO GO

If you've read my blog you know I lost 160 pounds about 8 years ago.
I've been keeping it off for the most part, but because of an injury, surgery, and recovery I did put on 50 unwanted pounds.
It seems now that it was easier to lose that 160 back then that it has been to lose this 50. I guess it just seems that way. I am older now, I think that may have something to do with it. I did let carbs creep back into my diet. It's easy to do.
While I know I will never be that FAT man again, because I live a LCHF / PALEO / KETO lifestyle now. I am looking forward to getting back down to where I want to be. I've got 20 more pounds to go.
I got stuck. I cut the carbs out but still didn't lose the weight as fast as I would have liked. I turned to fasting. Intermittent fasting. I'm on a 20/4 hour fast. That is I refrain from eating for 20 hours, and have a 4 hour window in which to eat my one meal a day. It's working. I'm dropping about 2 pounds a week.

If you'd like to know more about the LCHF / KETO lifestyle heck out:  Diet Doctor.com 
I got a lot of great info from that site 8 years ago. It's still one of the best.
They did a story on my weight loss back then. My blog went from getting about 200 visits a week to over 2000 a week.

For more information on Intermittent Fasting check and subscribe to Thomas DeLauer's Youtube channel. You'll find lots of good health info here.

I may never get back down to a 32" waist again, I'm 36" now. But then again, maybe I will.

Check out my first posts from July 2011 at the beginning of this blog. You will have to scroll down several pages to get to it. 

THAT'S IT

My 160 Pound Weight Loss

That's it. 
I've posted most of my old blog. Starting back on June 24, 2011. 
Go back to that first post and read them all. See what prompted me to study into health and nutrition. And what I did to lose 160 pounds and keep it off for over 8 years now. 
You will find that first blog several pages down on this blog. 
I will be adding new posts from time to time. 

Remember, If I can do it, YOU CAN DO IT.
Lose the weight and health problems.
WITH:
NO doctors. 
NO surgery.
NO pills.
NO diet.
NO weight loss program.
NO calorie counting.
NO exercise. 

Anyone can do it, and it doesn't cost more money. In fact, 
YOU WILL SPEND LESS THAN YOU ARE NOW.

FREEDOM

"Intelligent men learn from their own mistakes; Wise men learn from the mistakes of others".

When I walk through a grocery store now, I enjoy a feeling of FREEDOM. 
I'm free from the addictions that grip the majority of people. FREEDOM from the brainwashing we've all received from childhood on what is GOOD for us.

I know that I am no better than anyone else. I too was were they are. I didn't know the truth about the food I was eating. It took a traumatic event in my life to wake me up. (see my first post to learn more). That's what it took to get me asking questions, and finding answers. The answers are there, you just have to want to ask the questions.

We are held captive by our food addictions. It's killing us. We are spending billions each year to treat these addictions. Thousands of lives are ruined and people dying because of diet.

Watch these videos:

Hungry For Change

Today we are not eating food. We are eating food like products

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CarbLoaded: A Culture Dying to Eat

The film traces the origins of our beliefs about healthful and unhealthful food. Experts from all over the world talk about the problems as well as short and long term solutions. Among the many experts in the film are authors like Gary Taubes, Mark Sisson, and Melanie Warner. Medical doctors such as David Perlmutter M.D., David L. Katz, and Timothy Noakes share insights that are certain to challenge the status quo. Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat is a chronicle of the things it's writer and director Lathe Poland learned after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. He sought to find out why he got sick, because he didn't fit the classic picture of an adult onset diabetes sufferer. He quickly learned that much of what he knew about healthy eating was based on myths or fifty year old science. In the film he searches out why Americas modern food culture is killing us. The upside? There is a lot that can be done!

Dan's Low Carb Journey

Post From March 9, 2012 (HOW AM I)

My 160 Pound Weight Loss

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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012

How Am I?

After 24 months I can say I am doing fine. Better than I ever thought I would be when I began this journey. I never expected to lose so much weight.

I had almost constant pain in my right side, it's gone now. I had pain and burning in my left leg, gone now. I had heart problems, gone now.

I went from out growing a 52 inch pants now down to a 33 inch waist. Going from a 4X shirt to a medium, it's great. I'm still losing weight. I've lost 155 pounds as of the last time I weighed a few days ago. How low will I go? I would like to lose another 10 pounds. I'll stop when I reach the right weight. I'm not on a diet so I don't know what that will be.

To be able to miss meals without being hungry is great. I get busy during the day and often forget to eat lunch, I don't miss it.

Energy! I have lots of energy. One of the greatest blessing of this weight loss it the fact that I can get down on the floor and play with my now 2 year old little grandchild. At 340+ pounds I could barely bend over to pickup something. I couldn't walk to the mail box and back without stopping to catch my breath, now I can run around the block if I want to. I can cut wood again. I'm making furniture again.

All the aches and pains that I thought were just part of "getting old" are gone. They are not a normal part of aging. Our bodies were designed to give us many years of healthy living. 

Try it for yourself. Cut out the sugars, wheat, starches and bad oils. Eat a high fat diet and see it you don't feel better and start losing weight. Even if you don't need to lose weight you will still feel better once your body rids itself of the poisons. 

I am rereading the book by Gary Taubes "Why We Get Fat, And What To Do About It".

This is a great book, If you haven't read this book you should.

It's not about calories in and calories out, calories don't matter.

It's not about how much you exercise.

It's what we eat and what we should not eat. IT"S THAT SIMPLE!

There is an interesting video you should watch: "Hungry For Change, Your health is in your hands"

This video will be available to view for FREE online. You have to sign up now. Free worldwide online premiere March 21-31.

Watch a sample online now, click here.

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So what is stopping us from getting this?

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HUNGRY FOR CHANGE exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industry don't want you to know about. Deceptive strategies designed to keep you craving more and more. 

Could the foods we are eating actually be keeping us stuck in the diet trap?

In this free online premiere event you'll discover:

•How to navigate your supermarket - what to buy and what to avoid

•The real truth behind "DIET", "SUGAR-FREE" and "FAT-FREE" products

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•Why fad diets don't work

•What food additives to avoid and how to read labels

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•The most effective detox and cleansing strategies, and

•How to eat for clear eyes, glowing skin and healthy hair

Find out what's keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever.

Featuring interviews with best selling health authors and leading medical experts plus real life transformational stories from those who know what it’s like to be sick and overweight. 

Learn from those who have been there before and continue your health journey today.

Register below to watch the film online during the Free Worldwide Online Premiere, March 21-31, 2012. 

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Thanks to all of you for reading my blog. Over 14,000 of you from 63 countries have logged on since I first posted on June 24, of 2011. I'm still amazed that a man from the hills of Kentucky can reach so many people worldwide. 

I hope my story has helped you, encouraged you. Even if it's only made you laugh, I've done something.

If you've changed your lifestyle, if you are losing weight and feeling better, you have to tell others. You have to risk offending them. "Pay if forward" as they say. They might not listen at first but when they see the change in you, they will start to take notice and ask questions.

One reason I started this blog, was so I could have one place to send people for some answers. 

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90% of the money we Americans spend on food in for processed food. Don't tell me you can't afford to eat healthy, you can, YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO.

94% of ad budgets for food goes for processed food.

An interesting discussion on Sugar as Immune Suppressant

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Eating or drinking 100 grams (8 tbsp.) of sugar, the equivalent of one 12-ounce can of soda, can reduce the ability of white blood cells to kill germs by forty percent. The immune-suppressing effect of sugar starts less than thirty minutes after ingestion and may last for five hours. 

Sugar is like fertilizer to cancel cells.

Watch the videos and rest this page on Dr. Mercola's web site:

This Addictive Commonly Used Food Feeds Cancer Cells, Triggers Weight Gain, and Promotes Premature Aging

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In the book "Get The Sugar Out" by Ann Louise Gittleman M.S. C.N.S Ms. Gittleman says, "No matter what form it takes, sugar paralyzes the immune system in a variety of ways: 

Sugar has been proven to destroy the germ-killing ability of white blood cells for up to five hours after ingestion. 

It reduces the production of antibodies, proteins that combine with and inactivate foreign invaders in the body. 

It interferes with the transport of vitamin C, one of the most important nutrients for all facets of immune function. 

It causes mineral imbalances and sometimes allergic reactions, both of which weaken the immune system. 

It neutralizes the action of essential fatty acids, thus making cells more permeable to invasion by allergens and microorganisms."

Sugar Related Health Problems:

Acne

Addiction to drugs, caffeine & food

Adrenal gland exhaustion

Alcoholism

Allergies

Anxiety

Appendicitis

Arthritis

Asthma

Behavior problems

Binge eating

Bloating

Bone loss

Cancer (cancer cells feed on sugar)

Candidiasis

Cardiovascular disease

Cataracts

Colitis

Constipation

Depression

Dermatitis

Diabetes

Difficulty concentrating

Diverticulitis & diverticulosis

Eczema

Edema

Emotional problems

Endocrine gland dysfunction

Fatigue

Food cravings

Gallstones

Gout

Heart Disease

High blood cholesterol

High estrogen levels

High triglyceride levels

Hormonal problems

Hyperactivity

High blood pressure

Hypoglycemia

Impaired digestion of all foods

Indigestion

Insomnia

Kidney stones

Liver dysfunction

Liver enlargement & fatty liver syndrome

Low HDL cholesterol

Menstrual difficulties

Mental illness

Mood swings

Muscle pain

Nearsightedness

Obesity

Osteoporosis

Overacidity

Parasitic infections

Premature aging & wrinkles

Premenstrual syndrome

Psoriasis

Rheumatism

Shortened life span

Tooth decay

Ulcers

Vaginal yeast infections

Sugar may not be the whole answer to why you are ill, but it could be an important part of the puzzle.

Remember, wheat is as bad as sugar. 

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Instead of ripping open a bag of potato chips and popping the top on a bottle of cola, I'm making kale chips and brewing kombusha. 

I'm doing fine.

Post From Feb. 28, 2012 (JERF)

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012

JERF

Just Eat Real Food. 

If your great grandmother wouldn't recognize it, don't eat it; if it's packaged in a box, don't eat it; if it's advertised on TV don't eat it. They don't advertise good food, when's the last time you saw a commercial for kale?

Will we ever learn?

I was just at a family get together and there were lots of breads, cookies, pies, brownies, LOTS OF SUGAR.

SUGAR IS TOXIC, IT KILLS!

Along with that we can add WHEAT and like grains. They are KILLING US.

I went to a family camp out. An announcement went out for every one to bring a few dozen cookies. When I mentioned that it might not be wise to have so much sugar people got offended and I heard about it.

Well my friends, better to be offended than sick or DEAD.

There were trays and trays full of cookies.

I wish someone had tried to tell me years ago, maybe I would have been offended, but maybe I would have listened and checked into it. Especially if I could see that person had turned their life around.

"My People are destroyed for lack of knowledge". God.

A murder is ending life before it's time, many of us are doing this in the installment plan

I know I may come on a little too strong in my belief, but I've seen first hand what this poison can do to you. 

IT KILLED MY WIFE AND ALMOST KILLED ME! Because of this I've had no problem in putting this junk out of my diet. 

I was listening to a podcast on Livin La Vita Low Carb and the speaker said, you have to associate something that is bad for you with something you don't like. He looked at baked goods as Brussels sprouts. He didn't like Brussels sprouts.

I think of sugar and wheat as crack cocaine. I've never done crack but I know it's bad for you. Sugar and wheat are like crack, literally.

Someone told me they were having trouble staying motivated. I can understand this, it's hard after a lifetime of eating that junk to just stop eating it. I said to him, "you're not ever tempted to eat pork are you?" He said no he was not, I said "Just look at it like pork".

Put out the sweeteners, grains, and starches. Wheat and Potatoes are powerful hypoglycemic, it's like eating sugar.

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We've been told that getting fat and sick is just a normal part of aging. IT'S NOT. Our bodies were designed to give us many many years of health and energetic life. It's what we have been putting into our bodies that have made us so sick. It's not normal to be sick, it's not normal to feel bad.

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Nobody chooses to be obese, especially not children, but we are. This is a global pandemic. 

In 2001 six million kids in the USA were seriously overweight, in ten years that number has more than doubled.

Currently there are 30% more obese people in the world than malnourished.

There were 366 million diabetics in 2011, that is 5% of the world's population.

Experts predict 165 million Americans will be obese by 2030. 100 million Americans will have diabetes by 2050. Over a third of our population will be diabetic. You think health care cost are high now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

I've told you about Dr. Lutsig. Watch this video lecture he gave at Harvard Law School.

The Sugar Epidemic: Policy versus Politics

Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, argues that it is time for a paradigm shift in obesity science and policy, away from personal responsibility and toward public health. His presentation elaborates on his contention that sugar, like alcohol, should not be treated as an ordinary commodity on the open market.

Recently featured in the New York Times Magazine, Dr. Lustig has become a leading pubic health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.

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I don't like government intervention in food, but something has to be done about sugar. The sooner the better.

When we have family get togethers the main food is sugar and bread. Remember 2 slices of whole wheat bread will spike your blood sugar more than a snickers bar. It turns into sugar in your body. AVOID IT!

Read Dr. William Davis's book "Wheat Belly".

Sugar is indeed a curse. Watch this documentary titled "Big Sugar". Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. It reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet.

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Read "Is Sugar Toxic?" The New York Times April 17, 2011 

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Watch this lecture given by Dr. Russell Blaylock. Sugar Consumption and Behavior

In this lecture, Dr. Russell Blaylock explains one of the most important connections between nutrition and our health, how nutrition affects our behavior.

Citing a series of important studies, he shows that good nutrition can powerfully enhance our memory, mood, and behavior in a socially desirable way.

Like wise he shows us that poor nutrition can lead our youth into a world of violence, crime, depression and suicide.

By using an impressive array of studies on both juvenile and adult prisoners, Dr. Blaylock demonstrates these principals and outlines specific measures you can take to protect your children from these detrimental effects. Most importantly, he shows us that it is never too late to make these nutritional changes.

In the year1900 americans consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per person.

Today the average is now 129 pounds a year, a 2500% increase. (I've seen figures as high as 160 pounds and more per year). 57% of this comes from processed foods.

The leading source is fruit juices and sodas (43%).

Since 1974 consumption of sodas has doubled.

Teenagers are drinking an equivalent of 54 teaspoons of sugar a day, just from the sodas. How much more form the bread and candy they are eating.

Adults 40 to 59 years old increased intake of soft drinks by 250% between the years 1972 and 2001.

Older is not wiser, those over age 60 increased 300%.

It is estimated that 50% of people in the US have reactive hypoglycemia.

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I hope we are learning. I would like to recommend you listen to "Livin La Vita Low Carb" podcast

and "Ask The Low Carb Expert" podcast. 

Both available on iTunes or check out the web sites.

I know that I am repeating myself with some of these recommendations but we learn by repetition.